Apparatus for making harness-saddles.



W. F. TREBGE. APPARATUS FOR MAKING HARNESS SADDLES. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 13, 1910.

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WILLIAM F. TREECE, 0F STATESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR TO COMPRESS PAD 8a SADDLE COMPANY, OF STATESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.

APPARATUS FOR MAKING HAHNESS-SADDLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1912.

Application filed. August 13, 1910. Serial No. 577,000.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. TRnEoE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Statesville, in the county of Iredell and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Making Harness-Saddles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in apparatus for making saddles for harnesses and the object in view is to produce a simple and eflicient'apparatus of this nature especially designed for forming the pad of the saddle and compressing a filling of saw dust into a compact form therein, thus providing a yielding material and one that will conform to the back of the animal to which the saddle is applied.

The invention comprises an apparatus having various details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

I illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view through a part of the apparatus adapted to form a mold for shaping the pads preparatory to their receiving the saw dust filling. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the mold with the compressor top removed. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the top of the mold. Fig. 4L is a perspective view showing the plate which fits within the mold to hold the saw dust and to receive a compressor plunger to compact the saw dust. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the compressor. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal sectional view through the parts shown in Figs. l and 5 with the saw dust in readiness to be compressed within the pad. Fig. 7 is a cross sectional view on line 7--7 of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a sectional view on line 8-8 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 9 is a detail perspective view of a portion of a completed saddle.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a mold board having recesses B formed therein of such shape as to conform to the shape of the pad to be formed, said recesses being separated by a partition B, the opposite walls of which, forming the ends of said recesses, are preferably concaved.

D designates a cover for the mold which has projecting therefrom convexed portions I) which are shaped to conform to the molds in which they are adapted to compress a sheet E of leather or other suitable material out of which the saddle pads are to be formed. 7

In Fig. 4c of the drawings, I have shown a plate F having elongated openings formed therein, each of which has flanges II and H projecting from the opposite marginal edges of the openings, which flanges H serve to hold the plate F from lateral or longitudinal movements by engagement with the marginal edges of the openings B in the mold block. The upwardly extended flanges H project above the face of the plate F a distance sufficient to form a measure of the material required for filling the pad. In Fig. 5 a plate N is shown having two compressor members N of such shape and size as to fit the space within said flanges in which they telescope when the parts are adjusted in position to compress the saw dust within the pad. Stops, designated by letter 0, project from the under surface of the plate N and are adapted to contact with the adjacent face of the plate F.

In operation, the strip of leather out of which the pad is to be constructed is placed over the upper surface of the mold block A and the top D placed thereover with the projections 1) against the outer surface of the leather and pressure applied to said plate to cause said projections to form the pad by its being compressed into the recesses B. The sheet of leather or other material thus being formed, the top D is removed and the plate F is placed over the mold block A with the flanges I-I about the lower edges of the openings telescoping within the upper portion of the mold. Saw dust, which is the preferable filling employed, is placed within the pad formed in the recesses of the mold block and within the openings in the plate F, the amount of sawdust or other filling material thus placed within the mold being gaged by the upwardly extending,

flanges H, after which the plateN is placed over the plate F and the compressor members N inserted within the openings in the plate F. A sufficient pressure is applied to V the compressor member to force the saw. dust entirely'within the pads so that the upper surface of the saw dust ina compact form will be flush with the marginal 'sur-' face of the leather or other material form-' ing the pad, after which a'strip of leather K is placed over the opening in the pad c0ntaining the saw dust and cemented or otherwise fastened to the projecting portion of the leather or other material out of which the pad is formed, after which the pad is removed from the block A and stitched as at T about the marginal edge thereof to the strap K, thus completing the saddle,

It will be noted that the plate F with its openings, having flanges extending both above and below the upper and lower faces of the plate, serves the double function of locking the plate against lateral displacement during the filling of the mold and at the same time serves as a measure to determine the amount of filling material required for use in filling the pad. It will also be noted that by my form of construction of the mold plate a firm level upper surface is provided which, when the plates F and N are removed, permits of the placing of a paper or of the leather designed to form the upper face of the pad directly upon the upper face of the filling material, thus permitting the pad to be removed from the mold in which it is formed and of its being conveyed directly to the stitching machine. The advantages of this will be at once apparent, as the necessity of carrying to the stitching machine the mold block containingithelformed pad and the inconvenience attending the holding of this heavy plate during the operationvof stitching is entirely avoided. It is important that the stitching of the pad should be in close proximity to the pad itself and, as I have provided a construction of mold which permits the pad to be removed entirely from the mold before stitching, it will be seen that the parts of the pad can be stitched in close proximity to the pad itself-which could not otherwise be accomplished, as, in cases in which the stitching is required to be done while the pad is held withina mold, the thickness of material of the mold intervening between l the pad and the outer edge of the mold plate would render it impossible to stitch the parts along a line in close proximity to the ad. V p What I claim to be new is An apparatus for making saddle pads, the same comprising a mold block, molds formed therein, in combination with-a plate having openings conforming in size and H relative location to the molds, the said openings being provided with peripheral flanges extending below the lower face of the plate to prevent lateral displacement, and above the upper face of the plate to serve as a meas ure of the amount of filling material required in forming the pad and a plate provided with projections or formers conforming to the form of the molds in which they are adapted to act as plungers, substantially H as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aftix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAlJ F. THE-EOE. Witnesses:

A. L. HoUeH, V FRANKLIN H. HOUGH.

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